March 31, 2011 – The International Organization for Migration released a publication on “Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation in IOM’s Response to Environmental Migration.” This document presents IOM’s engagement in building the
resilience of countries and communities affected by a changing climate, environmental hazards and structural factors of vulnerability in order to foster sustainable development while making migration a choice. It describes the migration perspective in: disaster risk management; disaster risk reductio; and climate change adaptation.
It also describes some activities ranging from humanitarian response to promoting migration for development in relation to: the complementarities between disaster risk management; disaster risk reductio; and climate change adaptation; climate proofing and climate-smart risk reduction; migration and development; increasing climate and risk resilience; capacity-building; cross-cutting issues such as
gender, health, human rights; and partnerships and advocacy.
